Thermal Ablation in the Management for Colorectal Liver Metastases: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Metastasis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interventional oncology; pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; irreversible electroporation; stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; immunotherapy
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Interests: interventional radiology; computed tomography; interventional oncology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Targeted minimally invasive, image-guided therapies in the management of patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLMs) play an increasingly important role in clinical oncology and healthcare in general. These rapidly evolving treatment modalities (e.g., microwave ablation, irreversible electroporation or stereotactic body radiation therapy) are characterized by the local delivery of (non-)thermal energy or radiation at a high dosage, directly affecting the tumor tissue in order to treat cancer more effectively. Their success is chiefly based on their minimally invasive nature, superior safety and toxicity profiles, and often comparable or superior mid- and long-term oncologic outcomes, compared with conventional systemic therapy and surgical resection.
The increasing role of minimally invasive, real-time, image-guided and/or navigated treatment techniques for CRLM is the primary topic of this Special Issue. We share to collect high-quality original research and review articles that address the available kinds of (non-)thermal and radiation-related treatment options for CRLM in order to improve oncological outcomes in interventional and radiation oncology. Reports of studies highlighting the use of real-time image guiding or navigation tools or ablation confirmation techniques for volumetric assessment of the ablation zone are particularly welcome.
You are welcome to read the published papers in the first edition: Thermal Ablation in the Management for Colorectal Liver Metastases.
Prof. Dr. Martijn Meijerink
Dr. Robbert S. S. Puijk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- image-guided therapies
- colorectal liver metastases (CRLMs)
- thermal ablation
- (non-)thermal and radiation-related treatment
- interventional and radiation oncology
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